Ayletts growing sustainability

Ayletts Nursery invites you to clear out your unwanted plastic garden pots and take them to Ayletts for recycling. You know you want to forage in the shed and declutter!

But did you know how much they do to reduce their carbon footprint on site? Louise Canfield from Ayletts, a Silver Sponsor of the 2019 Sustainability Festival, said:

“We are passionate about plants and growing towards a sustainable future”

They have a fabulous display in the front shop – all about the work they are doing to ensure they recycle their packaging and reducing their carbon footprint. They have also started to use fully recyclable pots for their own planst.

They grow a large selection of their own plants on site, including Dahlia’s, Cyclamen, Geraniums, Fuchsias, Poinsettias, Primroses and Polyanthus – and are conscious of the need to source British grown plants and encourage customers to #growtheirown.

They have a compute controlled greenhouse environment to keep energy consumption at its more efficient and they monitor water use daily. Rainwater is collected for use in their Houseplant department.

To reduce electricity they have worked with Ideal lights and the Carbon Trust, and have replaced 99% of the lighting in the Garden Centre with LED equivalents reducing their carbon footprint by 30 metric tonnes.

In 2018 they recycled

33 Wheelie Bins (2.16 tonnes) of glass

26 Bales (4 tonnes) of plastic

It’s great to see local businesses taking environmental sustainability to heart and joining in with #SustFest19

2 thoughts on “Ayletts growing sustainability”

That’s excellent news and good to see a local business setting such a good example! I took some stuff down there on Monday. Would they be willing to keep those two relatively small bins open permanently? It would mean people routinely take along their used plastic pots, and might pop in to buy something new? It would save gardeners trips to the ‘dump’ just for flowerpots too.

Hi Clory, the team at Ayletts have said that they welcome their customers dropping off plastic garden pots at reception at any time. We will have to go in to see how they will manage this. I will pass on your message.